I have the Olympus 790sw and am very happy with it. Its main function for me to survive the riggers of the underground and its doing that very nicely, its been in swildons, caked in mud dragged, poped in my oversuit and then I crawl on it and after all that you simply pop it under water to clean it off! very pleased. Like ogofmole I found the 'night scene' mode gives about 4 sec exposure which can be enough to do some very quick light painting or give you time to manually fire a flash. Sadly I cant get it to fire just a single flash to set off a second flash with a sensor but thats not a bad thing as using the built in flash which is very close to the lens (recessed and protected
) gives you steamy looking pictures. Here is a couple of recent caving trip reports with pictures taken by my 790sw.
http://www.c**tplaces.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7050
- White Pit Cave - some 4sec exposure lighting with scurion. / Some flash in 4sec delay. 1st time using a mini tripod.
http://www.c**tplaces.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7047
- Hunters Inn Sink - some 4sec exposure lighting with scurion, just balanced it on rocks.
Pictures are not amazing if you compare it to lugging around an SLR with multiple flashed and tripod etc etc but unless your on a 'photo trip' who wants to lugg all that about for every trip!
Camera is thin and can hang from neck tucked under over suit and I confidently crawl on it and do squeezes with it.